ECSO suspension call
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ENGLISH EUROWAYS partner Wallace Arnold has challenged thr validity of a consortium of private coach operators who have caller for the suspension of the Euroways licences pending investigatior into the services.
Chairman of the European Coach Services Organisation Nicholas Rogovsky called for the suspension by the Department of Transport after a coach operated by Spanish Euroways partner Autocars Julia crashed in France last Saturday. Pointing to two other crashes in Yugoslavia in August on Euroway routes Mr Rogovsky said: "The Euroways consortium must now be regarded as licensed cowboys."
But Don Jordan of Wallace Arnold, who is also Euroways' managing director, has pointed out that the ESCO is a consortium of small operators, set up as recently as three months ago and not, to his knowledge, a member of the Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport (CPT) which represents "the responsible sector of the British coaching industry." Euroways therefore did not feel it should make any response to ESCO's statement. But Mt Jordan did tell CM that Wallace Arnold, whose vehicles have not been involved in any of the three crashes, had "always regardec Autocars Julia as a very comp& titive operator".
Julia has 12 years' experiencE on the Alicante-Barcelona-Lon don route, the last three in Euro ways colours, and this is its firs accident on the service, whict runs daily throughout summer When a licence for an interns tional route is granted, th operator signs an agreement ti the effect saying he will abide b the regulations of the countrie he passes through. Only th country whose regulations hay been broken can take official ac tion.